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<span class=large>AMOS</span>
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CHAPTER 8
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Amos prophesies the downfall of Israel—There will be a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.
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Thus</span> hath the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
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And he said, Amos, what seest thou?  And I said, A basket of summer fruit.  Then said the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto me, The <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 2.">end</a> is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 7: 8.">pass</a> by them any more.
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And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>: <i>there shall be</i> many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast <i>them</i> forth with silence.
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&#182; Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?  and the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbath.">sabbath</a>, that we may set forth wheat, making the <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 19: 36; Deut. 25: 15 (14-15); Ezek. 45: 10.">ephah</a> small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/8/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Prov. 11: 1.">balances</a> by deceit?
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That we may <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 2: 6.">buy</a> the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; <i>yea,</i> and sell the refuse of the wheat?
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath sworn by the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 6: 8.">excellency</a> of Jacob, Surely I will never <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 8: 13.">forget</a> any of their works.
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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 9: 5.">mourn</a> that dwelleth therein?  and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/8b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB overflow and recede like the river of Egypt.">be</a> cast out and drowned, as <i>by</i> the flood of Egypt.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, that I will cause the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 3: 6.">sun</a> to go down at noon, and I will <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 4: 13; Amos 5: 8; Luke 23: 44 (44-45).">darken</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/8/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Earth, Destiny of.">earth</a> in the clear day:
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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">lamentation</a>; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 24 (16-26).">baldness</a> upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/8/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 6: 26; Zech. 12: 10.">only</a> <i>son,</i> and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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&#182; Behold, the days come, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, that I will send a famine in the land, not a <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/11a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Sam. 3: 1; Ps. 74: 9; TG Apostasy of Israel; TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church.">famine</a> of bread, nor a <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 2: 3.">thirst</a> for water, but of hearing the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/8/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Rev. 12: 6.">words</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>:
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And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 12: 24 (24-25).">run</a> to and fro to seek the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and shall not find <i>it.</i>
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In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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They that <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/8/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Swearing.">swear</a> by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/8/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 12: 29 (28-30).">Dan</a>, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
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